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The ninth annual London Film Festival of Science Fiction and Fantasy is another six days of genre films, panels and events. I book a few tickets for myself and a friend and we head down for a full day and night of film watching.
We first watch the second of ...

There is a scene in Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's Second World War survival flick, where a Nazi soldier is threatened with being beaten to death by a notorious Nazi killer wielding a baseball bat, unless he reveals the position of other soldiers. The tension of the soldier's fate is ...

Blue Harvest, the Star Wars parody episode of Family Guy was on TV recently and, having enjoyed it so much before, I feel compelled to watch it. Once again it is a brilliant and humorous reminder of how great the original Star Wars film is, such is the warmth ...

The new Star Trek film doesn't follow from the previous release or let the cast and crew from a later series explore space in widescreen format, but instead harks back to the original television series. As we are to witness the first flight of the starship Enterprise it is ...

The beginning of May brings with it six days of sci-fi films and panels at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival, 2009 marking the eighth year of the festival. With a bunch of tickets bought in advance a few friends and I spend the best part of the bank holiday ...

Despite London Transport deciding that both the Underground and Overground lines convenient for me should have their service suspended on the same day I am able to make the journey in to London to see Watchmen at the IMAX, as arranged by Limited Edition. After some reintroductions with people ...

I am somewhat tardy in reporting this as it was a few months when ago I picked up the Mystery Science Theatre 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition DVD box set. I was only making a routine scan of on-line shops and looking at what MST3K episodes had been released in ...

I've finished watching the fourth series of The Wire, after getting the DVD box set for Christmas. I greatly enjoyed the previous three series and was expecting more great drama from this one and I wasn't disappointed.
Before I watched an episode I wondered if this fourth series would be ...

I picked up The Dark Knight on DVD and revisited this action-packed and enthralling super hero adventure, after having seen it twice at the cinema earlier this year. Heath Ledger is simply amazing as The Joker, slipping in to a rôle that he makes complex and engaging with experienced ...

It is occasionally said that you shouldn't revisit your childhood heroes once you've grown up, because they will never live up to your expectations or dreams. This makes sense, because the world moves on and we all grow in different ways, our experiences shape our perceptions and nostalgia clouds ...